Game.



UNITED STATES Patented October 27, 1903.

EDWARD H. ROY, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

GAME.

sPEcIFIoATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 742.498, dated October27,1903- Application filed March 16,1903. Serial No. 148,027. (Nomodel.)

To ctZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. ROY, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which thefollowing isa specification.

This invention relates to a game embody-y ing a pack of cards havingimprinted thereon letters to spell the name of a celebrity and pictorialor descriptive matter, or both, of scenes and important events in thelife of the personage from whom the game derives its name.

An essential feature ofthe game is increasing the same letter by one ateach occurrence in the same name to designate its order and preventplaying it too early or too late in the game. The number of cards mayvary according to the number of letters in the selected name and thenumber of times the name is provided. If the selected name contains tenletters and the name is provided ten times, there will be one hundredcards. In the particular game in question the name of the celebrity isGeorge Washington from whom the game is called. This name containssixteen letters and is, provided ten times, making one hundred and sixtycards in the game. The drawing illustrates sixteen cards, one for eachletter of the name, arranged in order, the tirst being G and the last N.The letters'arelpreferably arranged at opposite ends of the cards, themiddle portion being reserved for illustrative matter, pictorial orotherwise, indicative of events in the life of George Washington. Theletter G appears three times and is single at the rst position, doubleat the second position, and triple at the third position. Hence thelocation of a card bearing the same letter can be readily determined bythe number ot' letters thereon. The letters O, E, and N each occurtwice. Hence at the' second occurrence they are duplicated to determinetheir position in the name.

Any set of rules may be determined upon to play the game; but thefollowing have been devised: Each player will receive six cards, to beplaced face downward, this being called his Washington stack, also sixcards to play with. Player No. 1, at the left of the dealer, Will beginthe game by playing letter G on the table. If he has an E, he plays iton top of the G, and so on as long as he can play some letter towardspelling his name. If he has no letter G, he plays one of his cards facedownward on this Washington stack. Player No. 2 will do likewise untilal1 have played their first hand, all of the first handv going facedownward on the Washington stack that are not played on the table. TheWashington stack will then be turned face upward, and then the realscience and fun of the game commences, although from the very start thegame is very interesting. At no stage of the game must any letter beplayed ahead of G. When a player has this letter and plays some otherletter than G when he has a G, the player catching him will sayWashington and will select some card out of his own hand and place it ontop of the Washington stack of the one caught. Washington stacks will bewatched the same way, and whoever fails to play a card from hisWashington stack whenever opportunity affords itself the one catchinghim will do as before, say Washingtom and select some card out of hisown hand and place it on the Washington stack of the one caught. Whenthe trip is completed-in other Words, when the name is spelledhe thenplaces the cards vin the deck and mixes them up. The deck will never runout. When a player finds he cannot play a card from his hand or theWashington stack in the second hand, he starts a supporter, beingallowed six of such supporters. The cards must be placed side by side ofthe Washington stack. After a player has made six supporters he canplace cards on the top of them, but must not do so until he has made thesix supporters. When one of the supporters is used up, another may bestarted. One can always play some card from the supporters, if he sodesires, provided he has no card G or no letter on the Washington stackthat could ne played. It is necessary to watch the supporters veryclosely, for from this source the player gets the most Yhelp.- Theplayer who gets rid of his Washington stack first gets one hundredpoints and secures the game. Partners can play. A player has the rightto play a card from his partners Washington stack alone, but has IOOnothing to do with his partnerss supporters. In spelling the name thereare several letters of the saine kind-as, for instance, in George thereare two Gs, so when the second G comes there will be two Gs, and so on.Also the same will apply with reference to the letters E, N, and 0.Whoever plays the last letter at any time in spelling the name will getve points, and the player who gets the most points in this way will comeout second and third, and so on.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new isl. A gamecomprising cards corresponding in number to the letters in a given name,each card bearing a letter of said name and the cards bearing the sameletter more than once having the letter increased by one at eachoccurrence to designate the order or relative position of the cards whenplayed, substantially as described.

2. A game comprising cards corresponding in number to the letters in thename of a selected celebrity, each card bearing illustrative matter ofevents in the life of the personage and a letter of the name, and thecards bearing the same letter more than once having the letter increasedby one at each occurrence to designate the order or relative position ofthe cards when played, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD H. ROY.

